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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

By Kim Stagliano

Your pretty red house is on fire. You're on the second floor with your kids. The stairs are gone. You call the fire department. They tell you they don't go to red houses. They assure you that your house is not on fire, it's just your imagination. They hang up on you. Then they disconnect your phone lines. Smoke is choking your children, flames licking their feet. Do you throw them out the 2nd story window or let them burn to death having been told your house is not on fire? You may choose to let your kids burn to death. Good on ya. Get out of my way, though. I'm throwing my girls to safety.

That's my response to the Chicago Tribune accusing us of performing "uncontrolled studies" on our kids. (Our medical doctors are thorough and safe, by the way.) The AAP and mainstream medical doctors have abandoned our sick kids. They offer us nothing. Do they really expect us to let our children suffer? And why does it bother journalists like Trine Tsouderos and Pat Callahan that some of us are improving our children's lives?

Who on earth would tear down progress for so many kids and moreover, why?

Kim Stagliano is Managing Editor for Age of Autism.

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11 comments:

Anonymous
said...

Excellent!

You really have to wonder about the intelligence of the parents who listen to the clueless doctors who tell them, biomed is not for your kid but here are plenty of big pharm. drugs though so stay in that burning house and watch your child fry. The ignorance is chilling.

The sad fact is that I know several parents who would be more worried about their big house, fancy clothes, nice cars and snotty image burning up. In their minds their kids were born autistic and they would rather focus on useless genetic research and fundraisers where they can fulfill their giant egos. Dumb doesn't even begin to describe these types.